[plug] Partitioning Hard Disk

[Craig Ringer]

> I _think_ (but I'm open to correction) that more
> recent 2.4 kernels have changed to a model which again makes it less
> necessary.

Yeah, its back to normal now. Of course some kernel guru might decide 
tomorrow that having swap mapped to phys RAM (macOS style) is the way to 
go, where you're useable swap is immediately reduced by the amount of 
RAM you have. SCO does it this way, for example.

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